On Sep 3, 2006, at 5:17 AM, Jon Noble wrote:
> A friend of mine who started working as a casual for
> our (NSW) Dept of Ed had to wait about two and a half
> months for her first pay, and of course when it came
> it had a massive amount of tax taken out. Whenever my
> wife who does casual lecturing for Newcastle
> University starts a new contract it is six to eight
> weeks before she gets paid. All seems par for the
> course to me. Mind you they do eventually GET paid.
> Sounds to me like no one knows who is supposed to be
> responsible for paying you.
I used to work for a university. If you were getting a
check that covered a period longer than four weeks,
they did the tax manually so as to avoid that massive
tax deduction.
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